Well, this is a step forward...

[denorios]

The Law Lords have said that Debbie Purdy does have the right, under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, to choose how she dies. And they have said that the law on assisted suicide needs to be clarified in order to be clearer to whether or not those who assist should be prosecuted - although no-one ever has been, that doesn't rule

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[shishmish]

The thing that has always got me was that they would have been travelling to a country were suicide and assisted suicide is not illegal. so how on bloody Earth can they charge him for something he 1) wouldn't have done in the Uk, unless you count getting a plane from the UK and 2) Isn't illegal where's he's going?

I'm all for people having the choice to die with dignity, but of course there is that 'suicide' when it comes to grumpy old grandma and grandpa...